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This paper presents a new approach to the understanding of gamification within the context of local news, foregrounding the varied ways that games and interactable narratives engage player/readers through increased interactability, relationship-building and dynamic storytelling. The research extends a model of Self Determination Theory in an approach for development of a new kind of local digital news-service where readers are given more possibilities to interact with the non-fiction narratives of news stories.
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Svensson, T. (2017). User and Player Engagement in Local News and/as Interactive Narratives. In: Nunes, N., Oakley, I., Nisi, V. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10690. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71027-3_49
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